Mary Orange

✓ DOCUMENTED as to the relationship: MARY ORANGE, mother of MARY SEWARD (I100377) and so great-grandmother of Anne Craven; 'I can trace no higher in this direction'. THE STORY, recorded as tradition and NOT as fact: she was a Dutchwoman of HAARLEM who was believed dead and buried, whose servant opened the vault to cut off her finger for the ring on it, whereupon she revived and walked home in her grave clothes - and the daughter from whom this family descends was said to have been born AFTER that resurrection. A widespread European folk-tale attached to many families, and it should be treated as such; but the woman herself, and the Dutch connection, are the writer's plain statement of his own descent. ⚠ IF THE HAARLEM DETAIL IS SOUND it points at a Dutch or Anglo-Dutch mercantile family - which would sit oddly well beside the Hamburg Fosters on the other side of this same generation. Not asserted. END OF LINE as entered. SOURCE, NOW FULLY IDENTIFIED (7 Aug 2026, from the University of Limerick Glucksman Library catalogue record, Leonard/OS/197, ulsc:3183): JOHN DAVIS WHITE, 'History of the Family of White of Limerick, Knockcentry, Cappaghwhite, Lisowen, Kilmoylan, &c., &c: with notices of their several connexions, and of the families who have descended from them, WITH COPIES OF WILLS, &c', printed at Cashel, 1887, 160 pages with a plate and portrait; dedicated to Harriet Lawless. Page images read 7 Aug 2026. THE AUTHOR: John Davis White (1820-1893) of Cashel, printer, antiquary and author of 'Cashel of the Kings' - a PROFESSIONAL ANTIQUARY, not a casual memoirist, which raises this book's standing appreciably. He was a GRANDSON of Newport White of Kilmoylan by Mary Ievers, through their youngest son Benjamin (b. c.1776), and therefore a NEPHEW of our Richard White. GRADING: strong where he transcribes wills, deeds and dates - he prints them at length and they check out; weaker on inherited family tradition, which he passes on without warrant. Graded accordingly throughout. HIS OWN STATEMENT OF METHOD, from the Preface (image ulsc:3183-11): 'As I shall set down nothing but what I believe to be true, these pages may supply useful evidence (BY THE WANT OF WHICH MONEY AND PROPERTY ARE OFTEN LOST TO THE RIGHTFUL OWNER) after I am gathered to my fathers' - and he adds that 'in after years it may, possibly, be of importance to prove the seniority of one branch of the family above another, or the connection which one party bore to another'. He understood exactly what a pedigree is for, and said so. Printed at the Author's Press, Cashel, FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY.